In the image of God : religion, moral values, and our heritage of slavery / David Brion Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.Description: viii, 392 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300088140 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HT871 .D28 2001
Contents:
Pt. I. From Religion to Slavery. 1. Reinhold Niebuhr: An American Jeremiah. 2. Martin Luther King, Jr. 3. Religion and American Culture. 4. The Other Zion: American Jews and the Meritocratic Experiment. 5. The Slave Trade and the Jews. 6. Jews and Blacks in America -- Pt. II. Historians of Two Generations. 7. The Rebel: C. Vann Woodward. 8. A Tribute to Woodward. 9. Southern Comfort: Eugene D. Genovese -- Pt. III. Origins. 10. At the Heart of Slavery. 11. Slaves in Islam. 12. A Big Business. 13. The Triumph of the Country. 14. The Labyrinth of Slavery. 15. The Significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. 16. The Benefit of Slavery. 17. Capitalism, Abolitionism, and Hegemony -- Pt. IV. The Violence of Slavery as Experienced. 18. The White World of Frederick Douglass. 19. Life and Death in Slavery. 20. The Ends of Slavery. 21. White Wives and Slave Mothers. 22. Terror in Mississippi --
Pt. V. From the Construction of Race to the American Dilemma and the Feminist Revolution. 23. Constructing Race: A Reflection. 24. The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice. 25. The American Dilemma. 26. The Other Revolution.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. From Religion to Slavery. 1. Reinhold Niebuhr: An American Jeremiah. 2. Martin Luther King, Jr. 3. Religion and American Culture. 4. The Other Zion: American Jews and the Meritocratic Experiment. 5. The Slave Trade and the Jews. 6. Jews and Blacks in America -- Pt. II. Historians of Two Generations. 7. The Rebel: C. Vann Woodward. 8. A Tribute to Woodward. 9. Southern Comfort: Eugene D. Genovese -- Pt. III. Origins. 10. At the Heart of Slavery. 11. Slaves in Islam. 12. A Big Business. 13. The Triumph of the Country. 14. The Labyrinth of Slavery. 15. The Significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. 16. The Benefit of Slavery. 17. Capitalism, Abolitionism, and Hegemony -- Pt. IV. The Violence of Slavery as Experienced. 18. The White World of Frederick Douglass. 19. Life and Death in Slavery. 20. The Ends of Slavery. 21. White Wives and Slave Mothers. 22. Terror in Mississippi --

Pt. V. From the Construction of Race to the American Dilemma and the Feminist Revolution. 23. Constructing Race: A Reflection. 24. The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice. 25. The American Dilemma. 26. The Other Revolution.

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